THE testimonial on parchment of the Royal Humane Society has been awarded to Robert George Brunton, second coxswain of the Dunbar life- boat.

On the 9th of August, 1953, Mr.

Brunton climbed down a cliff at Dunbar and jumped into the sea, fully clothed, to rescue a schoolboy who had fallen over the cliffs. He held up the boy, who was unconscious, until they were both rescued by a small boat which had put out from the harbour..